Need What Is It And Must You Be Clever Enough To Be Helped?
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DavebytheSea
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ah! the colon, the colon! Such useful pointing lies there. Such a need indeed.
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englishangel
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Re: Need
Joke from my 16 year old daughter, (A* for GCSE)Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote:Now you are going places I cannot follow.Richard Ruck wrote: A colon would do the job quite nicely.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
Why don't men grow up?
Because they don't have to.
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DavebytheSea
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englishangel
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Need!
Her need was not great enough.
The staff are very lucky she is not there, defiant is definitely the word.
The boys are unlucky.
The staff are very lucky she is not there, defiant is definitely the word.
The boys are unlucky.
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Euterpe13
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Re: Need
Actually, and if we are being pedantic here, only a colon would be correct, not a comma, as the following words are an invitation to appraisal ( yes, Miss Morrison, I did listen in class ...! I still shudder at the widespread American " different than...")Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote:Now you are going places I cannot follow.Richard Ruck wrote: A colon would do the job quite nicely.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
cheers
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J.R.
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Re: Need
Euterpe13 wrote:Actually, and if we are being pedantic here, only a colon would be correct, not a comma, as the following words are an invitation to appraisal ( yes, Miss Morrison, I did listen in class ...! I still shudder at the widespread American " different than...")Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote: Now you are going places I cannot follow.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
cheers
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I find the subject of COLON'S totally IRRIGATING !
(Nurse ? More pills please !!)
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englishangel
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Re: Need
I think it should be a colon, but I only got a C for O'Level (modern day equivalent)Euterpe13 wrote:Actually, and if we are being pedantic here, only a colon would be correct, not a comma, as the following words are an invitation to appraisal ( yes, Miss Morrison, I did listen in class ...! I still shudder at the widespread American " different than...")Richard Ruck wrote:Sorry!englishangel wrote: Now you are going places I cannot follow.
Some distant memory from English Language O-level came bobbing to the surface there......
cheers
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englishangel
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need
I was just waiting for that one 